[Corpora-List] Lesser (sic) used languages

[Damon Chaplin]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 00:42, Somers, Harold wrote:
> Sorry for cross-posting, but I just saw an announcement for a conference on "Lesser Used Languages & Computer Linguistics", which looks like an interesting conference, but (the point of this posting), does anyone else cringe when they see "lesser used"? Shouldn't it be "less used"?

Is there a collective noun for linguists? I propose "a cringe of
linguists".

You can have "Cringe Meetings" at conferences!

Damon

(I think "Lesser Used" is fine, but I'm not a linguist.)